How Drugs Get Into America by David Hoang and Dante Vo
- Most drugs get imported to the US from many different countries like Venezuela, and Puerto Rico
- Cocaine is made in the Dominican Republic and exported to Puerto Rico
- Most drugs usually get imported to the USA through drug traffickers on the border
- Main way they get drugs into the USA is through rental cars, trucks, ATVs, planes, and couriers on foot to cross the border

Different Methods of Getting Drugs Into America

- 675,000 illegal drug carriers use the airplane as a method of transporting drugs
- 6 million illegal drug couriers by sea
- 370 million drug couriers by land
- 116 million vehicles that carry illegal drugs cross through Canada and Mexico
- 90,000 ships carry illegal drugs and are docked on the US coastal towns
- “Drug traffickers conceal Cocaine, Heroin, Marijuana, MDMA, and Methamphetamine for distribution for the US” www.policyalamanc.org

Locations Where America Gets the Drugs

- Southwest border is the first arrival zone for most of the illicit drugs smuggled into the United States as well as the predominant staging area for the drugs’ subsequent distribution throughtout the country
- Mexico is the number one supplier of Heroin, Marijuana, Methamphetamine, and Cocaine to the US

Metropolitan Areas Most Often Identified as Origination and Destination Points for Seized Drug Shipments, by Drug, 2008-2009
www.justive.gov/ndic/pubs38/38661/movement.htm

	Cannabis	Cocaine	Heroin	Methamphetamine	MDMA
Origination	McAllen Phoenix Tucson Rio Grande City Laredo	McAllen Los Angeles Phoenix Houston Laredo	Denver Phoenix Miami Chicago Orlando	Phoenix Los Angeles McAllen San Bernardino Seattle	Los Angeles New York Seattle Lynden (WA) Detroit
Destination	Houston Chicago Atlanta Tucson Detroit	Atlanta Chicago New York Miami Houston	Chicago New York Miami Newark Tacoma	Atlanta Sacramento Las Vegas Denver Chicago	New York Houston Baton Rouge Ocala (FL) Atlanta

Other Important Facts

- “An estimated 14.8 million Americans currently use illicit drugs” ezinearticles.com
- “An estimated 6.4 million Americans use cocaine, heroin and hallucinogens” ezinearticles.com






Federal Trafficking Penalties

DRUG/SCHEDULE	QUANTITY	PENALTIES	QUANTITY	PENALTIES
Cocaine (Schedule II)	500 - 4999 gms mixture	First Offense :	5 kgs or more mixture	First Offense :
Cocaine Base (Schedule II)	28-279 gms mixture	Not less than 5 yrs, and not more than 40 yrs. If death or serious injury, not less than 20 or more than life. Fine of not more than $5 million if an individual, $25 million if not an individual	280 gms or more mixture	Not less than 10 yrs, and not more than life. If death or serious injury, not less than 20 or more than life. Fine of not more than $10 million if an individual, $50 million if not an individual.
Fentanyl (Schedule II)	40 - 399 gms mixture		400 gms or more mixture
Fentanyl Analogue (Schedule I)	10 - 99 gms mixture	Second Offense : Not less than 10 yrs, and not more than life. If death or serious injury, life imprisonment. Fine of not more than $8 million if an individual, $50 million if not an individual	100 gms or more mixture	Second Offense : Not less than 20 yrs, and not more than life. If death or serious injury, life imprisonment. Fine of not more than $20 million if an individual, $75 million if not an individual.
Heroin (Schedule I)	100 - 999 gms mixture		1 kg or more mixture
LSD (Schedule I)	1 - 9 gms mixture		10 gms or more mixture	2 or More Prior Offenses: Life imprisonment
Methamphetamine (Schedule II)	5 - 49 gms pure or 50 - 499 gms mixture		50 gms or more pure or 500 gms or more mixture
PCP (Schedule II)	10 - 99 gms pure or 100 - 999 gms mixture		100 gm or more pure or 1 kg or more mixture
PENALTIES
Other Schedule I & II drugs (and any drug product containing Gamma Hydroxybutyric Acid)	Any amount	First Offense : Not more that 20 yrs. If death or serious injury, not less than 20 yrs, or more than Life. Fine $1 million if an individual, $5 million if not an individual.
		Second Offense : Not more than 30 yrs. If death or serious injury, not more than 15 yrs. Fine $2 million if an individual, $10 million if not an individual
Other Schedule III drugs	Any amount	First Offense : Not more than 10 years. If death or serious injury, not more that 15 yrs. Fine not more than $500,000 if an individual, $2.5 million if not an individual.
		Second Offense : Not more than 20 yrs. If death or serious injury, not more than 30 yrs. Fine not more than $1.5 million if an individual, $5 million if not an individual
All other Schedule IV drugs	Any amount	First Offense : Not more than 5 years. Fine not more than $250,000 if an individual, $1 million if not an individual.
Flunitrazepam (Schedule IV)	Less than 1 gm	Second Offense : Not more than 10 yrs. Fine not more than $500,000 if an individual, $2 million if not an individual.
All Schedule V drugs	Any amount	First Offense: Not more than 1 yr. Fine not more than $100,000 if an individual, $250,000 if not an individual.
		Second Offense : Not more than 4 yrs. Fine not more than $200,000 if an individual, $500,000 if not an individual.

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Federal Trafficking Penalties - Marijuana

DRUG	QUANTITY	1st OFFENSE	2nd OFFENSE*
Marijuana (Schedule I)	1,000 kg or more mixture; or 1,000 or more plants	Not less than 10 years, not more than life	Not less than 20 years, not more than life
		If death or serious injury, not less than 20 years, not more than life	If death or serious injury, mandatory life
		Fine not more than $4 million if an individual, $10 million if other than an individual	Fine not more than $8 million if an individual, $20 million if other than an individual
Marijuana (Schedule I)	100 kg to 999 kg mixture; or 100 to 999 plants	Not less than 5 years, not more than 40 years	Not less than 10 years, not more than life
		If death or serious injury, not less than 20 years, not more than life	If death or serious injury, mandatory life
		Fine not more than $2 million if an individual, $5 million if other than an individual	Fine not more than $4 million if an individual, $10 million if other than an individual
Marijuana (Schedule I)	more than 10 kgs hashish; 50 to 99 kg mixture	Not more than 20 years	Not more than 30 years
		If death or serious injury, not less than 20 years, not more than life	If death or serious injury, mandatory life
	more than 1 kg of hashish oil; 50 to 99 plants	Fine $1 million if an individual, $5 million if other than an individual	Fine $2 million if an individual, $10 million if other than individual
Marijuana (Schedule I)	1 to 49 plants; less than 50 kg	Not more than 5 years	Not more than 10 years
		Fine not more than $250,000, $1 million other than individual	Fine $500,000 if an individual, $2 million if other than individual
Hashish (Schedule I)	10 kg or less
Hashish Oil (Schedule I)	1 kg or less

*The minimum sentence fora violation after two or more prior convictions for a felony drug offense have become final is a mandatory term of life imprisonment without release and a fine up to $8 million if an individual and $20 million if other than an individual.
http://www.justice.gov/dea/agency/penalties.htm
Dante Vo
For drug trafficking the penalty is usually based on how many drugs are being transported and the number of offenses on a person. The penalties can range from 5 years to life in prison. Also, with spending time in prison they are also going to be given a large fine to pay off.

drug rehab Rohan Chaudhry

There are many places, and government agencies that offer both paid and free rehab. This includes both group counseling and one on ones. In the state of Massachusettts, the main drugs abused are Cocaine and Heroine. However, Oxycontin is becoming more and more popular. Every ay, about 5 people die because of alcohol and 1 because of drugs. That's 1825 a year for alcohol and 365 for drugs. Total that is 2,190 people. However, if we get the word out to those who need it, we can lower, mayb even eliminate those horrible statistics.